FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 13 February 2020

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~

TAKE THE NIGHT

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Login Loftis fires an M240 medium machine gun as Lance Cpl. Krikland Harrington looks through a night-vision device during Integrated Training Exercise 5-16 at Marine Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms CA, Aug. 18, 2016. The exercise brings together the ground, air and logistics combat elements of the Marine Corps into one unit ready to respond to global uncertainty. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Timothy Valero

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DOWNTIME WITH CANINE

Army Spc. Mariah Ridge, a military working dog handler, sits with her dog, Jaska, during K-9 hoist evacuation training at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Aug. 15, 2016. Ridge is assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo’s Joint Security Forces. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Siuta B. Ika

KOOLENDONG AIM

Marines attack an objective during a live-fire range movement as part of Exercise Koolendong 16 at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia, Aug. 10, 2016. The Marines are assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. The range training also included close air support, mortars, sniper overwatch and the combined anti-armored team. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sarah Anderson

CARGO DELIVERY

An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter prepares to deliver cargo to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during a replenishment with the fast-combat support ship USNS Arctic in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 12, 2016. The Eisenhower is supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Seaman Christopher Michaels

FLYING FEET

Army 1st Lt. Wiyaou Kamaziwe, left, and 2nd Lt. Justin Ganzer compete in a combatives tournament during the 2016 European Best Warrior Competition at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Aug. 11, 2016. Kamaziwe is assigned to the 5th Signal Command and Ganzer is assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command. Army Photo by Pfc. Emily Houdershieldt

MOODY DIVE

Air Force pararescuemen jump from an HC-130J Combat King II aircraft 25,000 feet over Moody Air Force Base, GA, Aug. 18, 2016. Pararescuemen are qualified experts in airborne and military free-fall operations. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan

LANDING ZONE

A medevac helicopter lands under green smoke marking a landing zone for a medical station during an exportable combat training exercise at Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 18, 2016. The exercise provides an experience similar to a combat training Center for guardsmen, but uses a home or regional station to minimize cost and time away from home and jobs. The soldiers at the medical station are assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 156th Engineer Battalion. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Wheeler

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February 13

Freed from Our Cage

Bible in a Year:

• Leviticus 14
• Matthew 26:51–75

[God] brought me out into a spacious place.

Psalm 18:19

While out taking walks, writer Martin Laird would often encounter a man with four Kerry Blue Terriers. Three of the dogs ran wild through the open fields, but one stayed near its owner, running in tight circles. When Laird finally stopped and asked about this odd behavior, the owner explained that it was a rescue dog that had spent most of his life locked in a cage. The terrier continued to run in circles as though contained inside a confined box.

The Scriptures reveal that we’re trapped and hopeless unless God rescues us. The psalmist spoke of being afflicted by an enemy, entrapped by “the snares of death” with the “cords of death . . . coiled around” him (Psalm 18:4–5). Enclosed and shackled, he cried to God for help (v. 6). And with thundering power, He “reached down . . . and took hold” of him (v. 16).

God can do the same for us. He can break the chains and release us from our confining cages. He can set us free and carry us “out into a spacious place” (v. 19). How sad it is, then, when we keep running in small circles, as if we’re still confined in our old prisons. In His strength, may we no longer be bound by fear, shame, or oppression. God has rescued us from those cages of death. We can run free.

By:  Winn Collier

Reflect & Pray

What are the cages that have you confined? How are you living as though an old cage still traps and holds you?

God, You say You set the captives free. Help me to believe it. Help me to live it. I want to be free. I want to be in Your spacious place.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Remembering Our Troops!

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[2111USMC]

It’s snowing here.

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, thanks for remembering and honoring our Troops, Kathy!

[mountainlion]

Still snowing here. It seems like it has been snowing since Thanksgiving. It seems like we will have no spring this hear. I hope we get a couple weeks of summer. I never saw so much snow. Where is that global warming they keep talking about???

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Well...the weekend is right around the corner and I’m ready.

Did you find a heated coat yet? We gotta keep your back warm! I saw them on Amazon.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[real saxophonist]

Snowing here too. My dad was a 22 year old LT(j.g.) in charge of an LCT on Utah Beach. He would have been 98 years old today.

[mylife]

Where is the Wife? In the Sea Bag? :)

[luvie]

Remembering Them.
Praying For Their Safety.
...As They Keep Us Safe.

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Kathy! Hope you’re staying warm.

[The Mayor]

The temps have been mid 20’s so I’m not that bad now.
It’s when the temps are teens and low 20’s that really effect me.

I’ve just been cutting a bunch of small pieces of hammered edge steel tubing
they are all for the beer stein lockers. Building 4 more.

[The Mayor]

This is the stuff I’m working with just 3/4”

http://www.twistedbars.com/ProductInfo/Edge-Corner-Hammered-Tubing-2.aspx

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[luvie]

That lady always reminds me of MsB! :)

[radu]

LOL! You’ve mentioned that before.

I wonder what she had on the front of her shirt. The soldiers seemed to like it a lot.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad it’s not bad right now, but stay warm!!

Those beer stein lockers are really cool looking. Can you sit while cutting?

[The Mayor]

Yes, I have a tall stool at my workbench